Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
November 2003
On Sale: November 1, 2003
192 pages ISBN: 0689845545 EAN: 9780689845543 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Johnny Moore lives in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
at the turn of the twentieth century. He is there to
witness the Wright brothers make history by becoming the
first people to fly. But Johnny's life changes years
before the dramatic first flight, when his mama gives him
a blank book and tells him to write in it.
At first,
Johnny doesn't think he has anything interesting to write
about in his journal. When he does put his pencil to the
paper, his spelling and grammar are terrible. But pretty
soon some "dingbatters" from Ohio, called the Wright
brothers, breeze into town and Johnny starts to have more
of a story to tell. Before he knows it, he is writing
every day, telling about helping the Wrights build their
flying machine.
Over the course of three years, he
forms a friendship with the odd brothers from Ohio,
improves his writing and grammar quite a bit, and if he
waits long enough, he might even get to fly!
© 2003-2024 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy